Large Hadron Collider

Rumors are flying about a December 13 update on the search for the long-sought Higgs boson at Europe's Large Hadron Collider

In a clip from Brian Greene's new NOVA miniseries The Fabric of the Cosmos, physicist Peter Higgs describes the bumpy road that led him to hypothesize his eponymous, elusive particle

Even as the last protons spin through the most successful particle accelerator in history, physicists hope to conjure one final triumph

Neutrino results challenge a cornerstone of Albert Einstein's special theory of relativity, which itself forms the foundation of modern physics

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Is math invented or discovered? A leading astrophysicist suggests that the answer to the millennia-old question is both

Brian Cox's new television miniseries uses our planet as his canvas to explain the origins of light, matter, time and other ethereal concepts

For four days in May, leading physicists and astronomers gathered in Baltimore to talk about the abundant but mysterious stuff that accounts for one quarter of the universe.

Researchers from a number of overlapping disciplines are awaiting a big boost from the world's largest particle collider

An Italian research group has for years trumpeted a cyclical ebb and flow in particulate activity that the researchers ascribe to dark matter. But support for the claim has been hard to come by

A fancy cosmic-ray detector, the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer, is about to scan the cosmos for dark matter, antimatter and more